Additional to yesterday’s put up, not solely is Brooklyn supposedly the very best massive metropolis in America for the driving of bikes (regardless that it’s NOT A CITY), however New York Metropolis’s bicycle parking program goes to “revolutionize city biking throughout North America:”
Certainly, it’s a “potential turning level,” and smuggies now even evaluating New York to Europe, their platonic splendid of completely every thing:
New York’s upcoming bike parking community isn’t simply excellent news for locals—it’s a possible turning level for city biking throughout North America. Cities corresponding to Montreal, Portland, and Vancouver have made strides with protected bike lanes and bike-share techniques, however few have tackled parking in a significant, citywide approach in a comparable trend to European cities the place the modal shift has already swung additional within the two-wheeled course.
So can New York pull it off? I’ve my doubts. With out boring you with my litany of complaints (you realize, the type that begin with “I’m a taxpayer and…”), it is a deeply dysfunctional metropolis. The inexperienced roof on the bike pod is an amusing contact, although. I’d say they need to construct housing on it as an alternative, however it’s most likely not mandatory as a result of somebody will quickly be residing up there anyway–until somebody elsoe figures out find out how to park their RAV4 up there, which is equally seemingly.
I imply how are we going to revolutionize bicycle parking once we can’t even put a motorbike rack by a pool?
Although to be truthful it sounds just like the Central Park Conservancy needed to transfer the rack as a result of folks in New York suck at driving bikes:
The middle, which is run by the Central Park Conservancy – the nonprofit group that manages most of Central Park – initially put in bike racks on the finish of that tough downhill zig-zag on the East Drive north of 106th Road. To entry the bike racks, cyclists must dismount at high speeds, after which could be in hurt’s approach as different cyclists handed. And cyclists getting into from Harlem must salmon uphill to entry the racks.
Uh, why would cyclists “should dismount at high speeds?” Have they not heard of brakes? Even the fixie doofuses can steadily handle to skid themselves to a cease.
I need to say I’m additionally shocked the advocacy set nonetheless makes use of the time period “salmon.” In any case, it was I who invented it, and so they’ve kind of excommunicated me. In truth I’d cease them from utilizing it if I may, purely out of spite:
Wanting that, it appears to me they need to at the least provide you with their very own time period, and if they’ll’t do this I’m joyful to assist them. Would possibly I recommend “wrong-dogging?” You’ll be able to have that one totally free.
In the meantime, from Eurobike, right here comes the gravel motor you’ve been ready for:
Simply make sure that to make use of it with this micro-massaging gravel bar tape:
Hey, it would very effectively be implausible, however it certain is creepy wanting:
These appear to be ambulacral grooves:
This entire gravel factor is simply getting bizarre.